To not believe grown women here are getting excited over Xmas adverts.

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seriously, my life is pretty boring but the day I get all worked up and teery over a sodding sainsburys/tesco/john lewis advert is the day I stick my head in the oven.

maybe its just mumsnet...I mean the john lewis advert made it into discussion of the day, can't see the aldi/lidl adverts will get the same reaction here....

Serious analysis of our relationship with seasonal adverts

Thanks Blu!

I must be the only person who hasn't seen the JL one on TV. I actually had to watch it on YouTube yesterday to see what all the fuss is about as even work people are talking about it. I thought it was ok. Didn't really provoke any strong reactions in me. Think DD will love it though as it's like a mini cartoon.

Blu - Spot on

It's just conversation,innit.

What would you like us to chat about?

exactly blu

I think I am on the wrong thread for this because there was another one about the actual Lily Allen singing but I just would like it to be permanently on record that I HATE that trained-jazzy-warbly-vibrato-on-the-tail-end-of-every-note voice. Fucking hate it. All fucking whimsical and breathy and faux naive and yet artificial and trained and mannered. ugh ugh ugh and ugh again.

(in case you missed what I was trying to say, I don't like it)

Naturalist Roy Hobbs said: “In real life, if a bear got close enough to a hare it would bite it in half then yank out its steaming giblets.

“Merry Christmas everyone!”

Ha ha love it Blu

Can't stand the singing in the John Lewis advert - out of tune to my ears. The advert is nowhere near as good as last year's John Lewis advert. But there is nothing wrong with these Christmas adverts. They are about family, community, sharing and giving. Great stuff.

I loved getting the Christmas Radio Times too (and finding out the details of the Only fools and horses christmas special and (showing my age now) i remember when you had to buy the Radio Times for BBC and seperately have to buy the TV Times for itv.

Oh i LOVED the JL snowman ad last year.

I have never been moved by a Christmas advert. I just see them as the cynical, manipulative money grabbing exercises they are.

A number of adverts make me well up; The Macmillan 'falling' one, the Donor card 'empty box' one, The Ceasar old man with his dog. DD thinks its funny when she catches me.

I liked the JL advert for the sheer joy on the rabbits face. I haven't seen the others.

None of these adverts make me but or donate stuff though, every if I do cry, they just make the annoying gaps in programmes less annoying. Do people really buy stuff 'just' because it is on an advert? I don't even remember what goods the JL advert was supposed to be selling, so how is it a money making exercise?

I like "cartoon animals and shopping are my top things in the world".

Was it Sainsbury's last year that treated us to the opportunity to have an indulgent affectionate chuckle at a man asking a woman who had worked herself to the bone all Christmas day for a cup of tea to be brought to him on the sofa? I saw it for the first time in the cinema amid a whole bunch of women about to endure The Hobbit with their kids and there was a spontaneous out real of The Rage from the rows of seats. It was very funny. (rage at twattish Sainsbury's thinking this was funny).

Mind you, it beats some of the other things people get excited about. Tamtrum at nursery (who's saying its the kid?)? Neighbour's kids birthday party not up to scratch? Party bag a bit deficient?

YANBU though. The time I get excited about an advert on tv is the time I will jump off a cliff. Yes, I will take up bungee jumping (and I'm terrified of heights, but I'm more terrified of finding John Lewis adverts exciting...)

Apologies, Sainsbury's , it was Asda.

That Asda one was awful and there was at least one more in the same vein, if I remember correctly. I would have loved to have seen the spontaneous of collective rage in the cinema. If there are more like that this year I think there should be a mn campaign against them.

People in liking different things shocker.

It is just tedious in the extreme when people have such a dull life they have to comment on what other people like or dislike.

It's not just the women on here, my hubby got excited when the JL one came in last night as everyone at work had been talking about it. Just as perspective he is an engineer working with mostly men.

I know, Fleta. All books and films and music and TV and art and theatre should just be publicised with the title and author in black Times New Roman on a white background and all you are allowed to say about it would be "The Book of Mormon. Date. Time. Go if you want. Don't if you don't want to. You might like it. you might not. don't talk about it any more or you will annoy Fleta"

wouldn't the bear die if it came out of hibernation too early?

Just googled the advert. You're made of stone OP!!

wouldn't the bear die if it came out of hibernation too early?

noo it wouldnt die would be bloody grumpy and needing a poo though